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Vitess is a bit less of an application abstraction layer in the sense of Edgestore, Tao, and others, and more of an operational abstraction that hides physical sharding and taking the pain out of repartitioning to accommodate new capacity.

I've had some opportunity to work with the Vitess (now PlanetScale) folks on some other databases-related work and it's a great community and product so I would definitely encourage people to check it out.

Notably, from that site: "Vitess has been serving all YouTube database traffic since 2011, and has now been adopted by many enterprises for their production needs."

(I work at Google, but not on Vitess or YouTube)

Does anyone know of a vitess equivalent for Postgres? I’d love to use it

Citus seems to be doing pretty well.

Yugabyte is trying to do it but by using the storage-api (and not a proxy)

You can make one, it's open source. You just have to rewrite the MySQL pieces to work for Postgres.